So the big question is this, how do young men like us who didn't listen to society,
who are on our own, how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can live a better tomorrow?
That is a question and this show will give you the answers.
My name is James Radzinski and welcome to the Ascent Momentum Show.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Welcome back everyone.
Today is Monday.
My second week of school, but also the first day of us starting this new kayaking unit.
So we get to go in the pool and kayak basically during gym class.
It's really fun.
But today, like I said, today was the first day of it and it's a co-ed class.
And the way my school is structured, everyone goes in the field house and they kind of just
hang out in the field house during gym and the boys locker rooms are in the field house.
So the boys locker room are on one side of the field house and then the pool that we
swim in is on the other side of the field house.
So I have to walk all the way across the field house, shirtless and barefoot every single
day, twice a day.
Just to go to the pool and wants to go back to the locker room.
So I mean, I'm saying this as humbly as possible.
I am, I've been lifting for two years.
So I am a little jacked.
But I, I noticed that, oh, and I'm also tan.
I'm really tan right now.
And I have a six pack like my abs are cut out very, they're cut out pretty well and
they're very defined.
So all of that stuff combined.
That's just context.
And I noticed today that people treat you differently.
They definitely treat you differently when, if you don't have a shirt on, if you're jacked
and tan, because today, the, okay, so the first second I walked out of the locker room
when I was, I was shirtless and barefoot and that was my whole class.
I'd do it, but I went first.
I was like individual because none of my other classmates were done changing.
So I went first all the way across.
And the first person I saw literally just stared at my abs.
And then I kept walking because I didn't know that person.
And then I went out of the locker room and then one dude was super happy to see me, which
he normally is pretty happy to see me, but there was just a different vibe.
And then that was my friend and then I saw one of the teachers that I used to, used to
be my flag football coach and he usually is pretty nice to me, but today was like extra,
extra nice.
And then he was like walking me all the way across the field house and then he kind of
drifted off because he had to be somewhere.
And then I saw this one teacher, she was one of the gym teachers and I'd never talked to
her before, but she was like, good morning.
She was like very thrilled and excited, which I'd seen her before and she never said that
to me before.
I said, I've never even seen, I don't even know, it doesn't matter, but people definitely
treat you differently.
And honestly, I wasn't expecting it and I'm not sure how to think about it.
I'm not sure how I think about it, how I feel about it.
Because this is the first time that I've ever really been in a public area with friend,
like a lot of people, shirtless.
I've been in public shirtless, but this is the first time I've been shirtless.
Well, actually last year I was shirtless too, but it's not the same because I'm more jacked
now and I'm more tan.
And it's just, I don't know, I don't know how I feel about it.
I kind of like it, but it also kind of makes me, I don't know, I'll figure it out.
I might try and abuse it.
I don't know, dude.
I'm just saying things at this point, but that's something that is pretty exciting.
People are very friendly.
I'll let you guys know how it goes again tomorrow.
But I want to talk about something.
And this is something that I wrote in my journal last night and then my friend also turned,
it turns out he wrote it in his journal last night as well.
It's that we're not taking action in our business.
Yeah, we're podcasting, whatever.
It's not the big movers.
We're just studying and we're learning a lot.
And then he said, he walked up to me at the gym today, he said, we know too much.
And that's the problem.
We know so much, but we don't understand anything.
And then after we talked about how we're not taking action and how we're slacking, I went,
it was today's a sunny day, very sunny summer day.
And I went to the sun deck where people tan on the top of my gym.
I just sat there and contemplated and thought for maybe 10, 20 minutes about that.
Because I brought it to my attention last night, but I obviously forgot about it because
I didn't remember it until he brought it to my attention today.
And it's definitely true.
I'm not doing enough or I'm not even doing anything.
The only thing I'm doing is podcasting.
And to be honest, it's good, but it's not really, it's not going to make me money unless
I do something with it.
And we're in the business to make a lot of money, not to not make a lot of money, if
that makes sense.
And then when I was in the shower, showering, I was thinking he's taking it, he's going
to start taking action soon.
So if I don't take action soon, I'm going to be left in the dust and he's going to surpass
me so far because I was making a lot of connections.
Maybe I've been studying Transurfing for, I've been studying it for like five months.
He's been studying it for maybe three or four or two.
I don't know.
I wasn't even studying it all five months.
I bought Transurfing five months.
Excuse me.
Let me get some water.
He, I bought Transurfing five months ago and he probably bought it two or three months
ago.
But what I'm trying to say is that we're, we've just been studying, we've been implementing
some of the principles, but we haven't really been taking the big action.
And I remembered he reminded me that we did not know much.
We just knew a bunch.
But once we took action and did the cold approach to girls, that's when we really started to
understand things.
And that's when we started to change because we took action.
And then once he said that, I remembered a quote that I always repeat.
And it's when you hear something, you forget it.
When you see something, you remember it.
When you do something, you understand it.
So us doing cold approach really helped us understand Transurfing.
And we even know and we remember a lot about business, but we don't really understand business.
And it's not until we actually take action.
So that's where I'm at right now.
He knows what he needs to do to take action, but I don't.
I have no idea what I need to do.
I don't even know where to begin, which is crazy because a couple months, like one month
ago, I had so many ideas, but now I realize that I just need to take, let me just, let
me rewind for a second.
When I first got into business, I bought a mini journal, a mini notebook that could
fit in my pocket.
And when I was trying to figure out my business idea, I knew that I needed to give it some
serious thought.
So I bought that journal and I just went, I took it and went on a very long walk, probably
one or two hours, shirtless and barefoot around my park, all the way to the park and around
it.
And I would just sit at the bench and contemplate and write a bunch of stuff down.
So that's kind of the stage where I'm at right now.
What do I need to do moving forward?
What's the big?
What's the cold approach that I need to do relating to business?
What is the piece of action that I need to take that is on the same level of cold approach
relating to business?
And cold approach is, if you don't understand what that means, it's when you walk up to a
random girl and start a conversation and ask for their number or even just start a conversation.
It doesn't even matter if you ask for the number.
And that's, I've done it two times so far.
I've done it probably 10 times so far, but on two different days.
So basically only two times.
And I kind of remember, I remember my framework for expanding your comfort zone that I was
talking about a lot, like a week ago or two weeks ago.
And it's, you have to do something uncomfortable five times until it becomes comfortable or
until it enters your comfort zone on five separate days.
So you can't just do it five times in one day back to back.
You have to do it once a day for five days.
So I'm on day two for the cold approach.
So essentially I need to spend three more days and I'm probably only going to do that
on the weekends, depending on if we have time or not.
But I need to figure out what is that cold approach for business?
What is the business cold approach that I need to do?
And that's what I'm going to, I'm going to sit in a, I'm going to contemplate a lot tomorrow
and tonight during my meditations.
Tomorrow I'm probably going to skip my morning study session and maybe go on a walk, maybe
just, I don't know, I'll figure it out.
But today was honestly, today's a very good day because I was suspicious that people treat
you different when you're shirtless.
And my suspicions were confirmed because I started to be suspicious after that experience
at the pool, they're at school this morning.
And then on the way home from the gym, I was riding my bike with Franklin, my friend.
And I decided to, we are, he had a shirt off.
So he said, take your shirt off.
So we did it.
And so I biked home shirtless and every single person was like very friendly and said hi.
And I think it's definitely true.
So over the next couple of days, I'm going to try and figure out what it is that I need
to do to take action.
Just try and figure it out.
I have maybe 26 days until my birthday.
And that's what I've been telling myself over the past two months that I'm not going to
accept payments until my birthday.
Why not?
I'm not in an obstacle and I can go around it.
It's just, I don't know, I have to sit in a lot of thought about this.
But I'm really excited for the future because lately I've been really focusing on, I actually
had one second.
Okay.
I am awake.
Lately I've been really focusing on staying awake and staying present because that is the
whole, you can't do Transurfing unless you're awake.
And the more awake you are, the more effectively you'll be able to take hold of your own destiny
and move forward.
So I was trying to figure out ways to stay awake longer and just practice techniques,
practices to practice, but nothing really came up.
I think that meditation is just the best way.
And I've been meditating, I think that I've hit a stump where I'm meditating, but I've
kind of plateaued because I'm not pushing myself while I'm meditating.
I'm kind of just getting through it half heartedly and I'm not really pushing myself
to stay vigilant the whole time.
I kind of am just sleeping through the meditation, if you will.
And I think that I definitely, I know that that's anti or that's not effective.
I know that is definitely not helping me at all and it's hurting me probably more.
So I had to make it a point moving forward to, I had to re, I think that I have to realign,
reframe, reshift my thoughts and opinions about meditation.
Because currently my, I'm thinking that meditation is kind of just an easy exercise and you just
do it and then it's based off completion.
And you kind of can just sleep through it and you get benefit.
But I need to change, shift that mindset to, it's kind of like working out.
If you just go to the gym and sit around and lift 10 pound weights and barely do any reps,
you're not going to get any benefit off that.
And that's kind of what I'm doing with meditation.
So I have to treat meditation as one of my exercises because I'm just treating it as
basically sleeping.
I'm just falling asleep and I'm getting distracted a lot and it's not helping my brain.
Because now that I'm saying that, now I'm saying that it's kind of giving me the notion
that meditation is basically to train your brain to stay more vigilant and stay more
alert.
And if you're just sleeping through that training session, well then you're, you're going to
get sleeper results.
So that's, that's probably what the title of this.
I want to go in depth about that because I just kind of discovered this.
Meditation is a, is a exercise, meditation is a training session.
Meditation is a training session, not a sleeping session.
So let's talk about that.
Actually I've been meditating and I've been laying down and kind of flexing, doing just
random things.
And last night I actually even stopped meditating in the middle of it and went to go read a
book.
That is how bad it's gotten.
Would you stop working out?
Would you stop lifting weights and then just start reading a book halfway through?
Actually a lot of people do that with their phone, but let's not get into that.
So that's, that's kind of like, that's just not helping me.
But what I learned last night, I actually learned some stuff out of the book that I
read.
There's this book called, Are You Dreaming that I picked up a long time ago and I read
halfway through because I wanted to, I wanted to learn how to lucid dream.
But obviously since I only read half of it, I kind of gave up on that and moved on.
But I, I remember, I know that the next thing is lucid dreaming for trans surfing and that's
how you are able to understand outer intention and plus the techniques that you use to become
a lucid dreamer is just all mindfulness and that's all, that's trans surfing, staying
mindful and staying present.
So it kind of goes hand in hand.
But what I'm saying is that, what I'm saying is that when I read that book about Are You
Dreaming, I read the table contents and looked for something new and unique that would inspire
me and towards the end it was talking about my, it was like meditations and lucid dreaming
or something like that or mindfulness and lucid dreaming.
So I read that whole pair, that whole chapter last night and it talked about, there was
this concept that it brought up called the monkey brain and it's from Buddhism and it's
basically the monkey brain is kind of what most people's brains are like 99% of the population's
brains, 99% of people are controlled by their monkey brain and that's basically just us.
It's not us but it's just the brain that we listen to.
Every single time you try and clear your mind and then you lose focus, you fall asleep,
that's the monkey brain.
And I remember hearing about that concept in a podcast a long time ago and I think that
I remember there are three types of brain, three types of kind of modes in your brain,
the monkey brain and then two other modes, I forgot what they are.
But the monkey brain is basically what prevents you from living your life.
And it said that back in the day, the reason why we have monkey brains is because of ancient
times we needed to survive.
And someone who was asleep all day and kind of just went off instinct and the reason why
the monkey brain is is because it doles all of your senses.
So you can't, you don't notice your breathing right now.
Now you do.
But you don't notice your feet, your toes, your shoes touching your toes.
You don't notice the gravity pulling down your, on your butt, in your chair or in your
feet.
You don't notice the coldness on your back or the warmth in your hands.
All the, all these senses, we don't notice.
We're just tuned out.
And that happened during ancient, ancient times when we just needed to survive.
It's someone who isn't paying attention to any of their senses and is just focused on
one thing at a time.
That person is more likely to survive than someone else who is just in awe of all of
the senses and all of the feelings that they're experiencing at that moment all at the same
time.
So that's pretty much why the monkey brain is.
But now that we've built a world around us and we don't have to worry about survival,
we don't, like survival is not on our minds anymore.
It's simply just a fact that we're going to survive.
We're not going to get eaten by a lion or we're not going to get, we're not going to
starve to death.
I'm talking about my, I'm talking about just the average person.
And so since we don't have to, since we don't have to worry about survival as much as we
did back in the day, we get to worry about other things.
And that's the issue.
We switch our focus to the next thing to worry about.
And it's usually just made up by our minds.
That's just a problem that's made up by our minds that is not actually a real problem.
It's just our mind created it pretty much.
And that's the monkey brain.
But now, since we don't have to worry about survival, we can, we can wake up.
We can actually be present in the now, in the moment, and we can feel all of our senses.
And it's a lifelong journey to get to that point sometimes.
It'll take years of trainings, years of practice.
And I'm just beginning a couple of weeks ago, maybe a month ago, is when I decided to be
conscious and be awake.
And I'm still asleep more than half of the day.
So I know now that it's, it's a journey, it's a process and as of my knowledge now, the
only way to reduce your monkey brain and stay awake and vigilant most of the day is simply
through just pure dedication and pushing through just pure bulldoze through and just keep at
it.
I'm not sure if there's any practice or anything.
But now that I brought, now that it was brought to my attention, the meditation is an exercise
and not, and not a sleep, sleep.
Meditation is an exercise and not, not sleep time.
I think that that will help a lot with clearing the mind and staying more present, staying
more awake.
And what I did when I first started meditating is I did quantity over quality, but I'm, I
think that it's quality over quantity now.
I think that if you do 30 minutes of meditation, but you're asleep for over half of it, then
that's worse than five minutes of meditation when you are awake the entire time.
And that kind of, I kind of just connected a dot where when I first started meditating
maybe a year ago, I would do it during, it was either a year or two ago, one or two years
ago, I would do it after the gym.
I would be at the gym and I would meditate in the yoga studio after I was done stretching.
And I would do it for five to 10 minutes.
In the beginning it was like one minute and then I was just doing it for five to 10 minutes.
It was different every day.
Sometimes it was two minutes, but I remember that I would just focus the whole time.
And there was one time where I checked to see, I wanted to get a milestone or I wanted
to quantify how focused I was and how clear my mind was.
So I set a timer for three minutes on my phone and I just started meditating and I counted
every single time my mind dozed off and wandered off and it was only three times.
So that was after a long time of meditating pretty consistently.
And then I kind of stopped meditating a little bit after that and then it wasn't until recently,
maybe a month ago or two months ago during summer when I started meditating again consistently
this time at my house.
But instead of doing the quality of low time, I decided that it would be better if I did
70 minutes a day.
So I did 30 minutes plus 10 minutes of breath work, which is kind of like meditation also
in the morning.
And then I did 30 minutes of meditation at the night time.
But now I don't think I definitely did get a lot of benefit, but I think that I'm plateauing
right now and I'm not really getting much benefit anymore.
So I think that it's quality over quantity.
So I don't know what I'm going to do exactly moving forward.
I don't know if I'm going to cut down my meditation and then just focus or if I'm just going to
make sure that I focus on this longer meditation.
I don't know, I'll have to see.
But I want to talk, I want to shift years again, and I want to talk about the neck exercise.
So my friend Alex, who is 30 years old and he's a bodybuilder, he told us about some
exercises that he wished he knew about when he was 18, and one of the exercises was this
neck exercise that he told us about.
And he said that Mike Tyson does it.
And I know of Mike Tyson.
I don't really know.
I didn't even, I just heard the name.
That's all I knew about him, just his name.
But I knew that he was a popular person, a famous person, so he's definitely the real
deal.
So he said Mike Tyson does it.
So I ended up doing it, even though I don't even know who Mike Tyson is.
And then later on, he showed me a video of Mike Tyson doing that exercise.
And it's basically like a neck bridge, like a neck pushup, where you lay on your back
and you bend your knees, bend your legs to where they're kind of up, like your legs are
up bent, not just laying flat, they're bent up, like your feet are facing on the ground,
like they are when you're standing.
And you just push down onto the ground with your neck and do like a bridge.
You basically lift your body up with your neck.
And in the beginning, I wasn't even able to do it with my neck at all.
I had to use my hands for support.
And I wasn't even able to do a rep, but now, so I had to do static holds in the beginning,
but now I can do 12 reps.
And it's been maybe a week of doing it, maybe a week and a couple of days.
It's been less than 10 days of doing it.
And I am already seeing some gains in my neck.
My neck feels firmer when I touch it with my hands, but it also looks a little thicker.
And so I'm really excited.
I'm looking forward to the future because your neck is very important.
You don't want to have a weak neck for functionality and looks.
Now let me tell you another reason why I am focusing so much on the neck.
So there was this in my class last year towards the end of the year, this senior was shopping
on Facebook or Instagram for her roommate, for potential roommate for college.
And her friend who was a junior was helping and at that time I was a junior.
And so I was just sitting there listening to that conversation, minding my own business.
And the junior was saying they were scrolling through like pass, pass, pass.
And then she said, Oh, this guy's got a thick neck.
That's so hot.
And then I like started laughing and then she said, just a word of advice, guys with
thick, guys with strong buff necks are hot.
And so I just started, I just laughed it off.
And then after that, she's a girl.
So I took her advice because she's speaking for the ladies.
And so if the ladies think that if the ladies like a strong buff neck, well, then that's
what I got to get.
Right.
That was my thought process.
So I immediately added shrugs into my workout.
And yeah, my traps got built.
But that was just when I was doing the shrug exercise, I didn't really see much gains on
the neck.
So then I was just like, okay, I just focused on the shrugs.
And then eventually a week ago, we were talking to Alex and he told us about the neck exercise.
So when he said there was a neck exercise, I was excited.
And so I just started doing it and I'm definitely getting benefits.
And I've been doing it every single day since one or two times a day in the morning and
at night times sometimes at night.
Every day in the morning guaranteed though.
So that's one thing that I'm really looking forward to because my neck just feels, it
just feels tougher, feels stronger.
I look bigger now, even though I've barely gained any gains because it's only been a
week, but next month gains.
Two months gains.
That's just going to get better and better from there.
So I want to talk to you guys about funnel hacking live.
Yesterday, it was resolved and I'm definitely going to funnel hacking live now.
And the funds are coming to me.
So I'm definitely going to have enough money to do it.
And so far the plan is to buy like a very cheap plane ticket for 90 bucks each and just
have like a carry on bag and that's it, which will probably be a little bit more expensive
with a carry on bag.
And then we're going to go there on the 26th and then we're going to stay at the hotel
across the street.
It's a 15 minute walk from the place, the world center, the Marriott world center in
Orlando.
And so we're going to go out to the hotel across the street.
It's $90 a night instead of $350 a night at the world center.
And we're going to stay there and every day we're just going to walk to the conference.
That's just going to be what we're going to do.
And then in the beginning on the first day, we'll probably walk 45 minutes to the nearest
grocery store, Publix and buy some food.
And I'm really excited because I want to walk barefoot and shirtless in the Florida sun.
It'll be in September, so won't be as hot, but it'll still be hot and sunny.
I suspect.
So I'm really excited and then we're going to fly home on the 30th or the first.
So there's this thing that I've been trying to do for the past maybe four weeks, maybe
a month.
I don't know.
This over the past summer, I've been working on my feet.
So I've been going barefoot a lot and spreading out my toes.
But there's this also one more thing that I was working on and it's trying to get, be
able to point with my feet.
So hold your hands out, just flat on the table.
And then point, like bend all of your fingers except for your index finger.
You're able to do that, right?
You're able to point.
Now I want to be able to do that with my feet, with my toes.
So I was working on trying to be able to bend each of my toes individually.
And I'm maybe four or five weeks in and I am only able to have my one toe flat at a time
if I push all the other toes on the ground.
So I can do the, I can point, but I have to hold all of my toes to the ground.
But it's still cool.
I'm not able to do it without holding the toes to the ground, but I'm able to do it
without my hands.
So that's cool.
That's just a side note.
So back to the business thing.
In my class business incubator, we were, my teacher asked, is anyone doing anything?
Has anyone done anything already entrepreneurial?
And so I raised my hand thinking that he was just taking a poll, taking a survey, but then
he said, well, tell me about it.
So I didn't, I didn't expect that.
So I kind of just said building funnels for people.
I was caught off guard, but then the next, there was another girl that raised her hand
and he asked her about it as well.
And she started a t-shirt line and the website is up and running, but she hasn't made any
sales yet.
So she is probably my dream customer.
And I'm definitely going to talk to her cause she's also, she's into my classes, my business
incubator class and my humanities class.
And I actually sit right next to her in humanities.
So I'm definitely going to talk to her tomorrow about that and try and, try and work with her
and figure out how to get that t-shirt selling.
I'm actually, I just, I'm really excited to talk to her about that because I think that,
that I could help her a lot.
I definitely know that I can help her a lot cause I'll build her a movement and help her
build a funnel that will sell.
So coming up in two weeks, probably nine days, eight days, I'm going out of town for like
four days.
So I'm going to have to pre-record four more episodes.
So I'm going to have to be nine episodes ahead so they can all be posted while I'm gone.
Cause I like to keep the five episode cushion even though I never use it.
And this could be a good use of it, but I still want to pre-record some more episodes.
So next weekend I'm probably going to have to do double episodes.
And over the next multiple days I'll probably end up doing double episodes.
Cause I'll be going to Ohio to visit my family.
It's going to be like the whole weekend.
It'll be Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
We leave on Friday, get back on Monday.
So I'll be able to, I won't be able to record Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, so that's three
days, but I will be able to record on Monday.
So that's, that's the situation.
And that is next week, or not next weekend, in two weekends.
So I want to tell you guys about this one thing that my abs, my top two abs poke out
further than my chest does, which from the side it looks really weird, in my opinion.
Other people don't think it looks weird.
They think it looks fine, but I think it looks weird and I don't like it.
From the front it looks fine, but from the side it just looks weird.
And so I was trying to do a, trying to fix it.
And some of the things that I've done is this breath work, you breathe through a straw, breathe
in through the straw, through your mouth.
In a small, the whole point is to have a precision breath.
So you have, you put the straw at the tip of your lips and you wrap your lips around the
straw to get a precise breath.
And then you breathe in and then hold it for the same amount of time you breathe in.
So like four or five seconds.
And then you exhale for the same amount of time, four or five seconds.
And then you hold it, hold that the bottom of the exhale for four or five seconds.
So you're kind of making a square.
You're breathing in for five seconds, holding that for five seconds, breathing out for
five, exhaling I should say for five seconds.
And then holding that for five seconds.
And then what I added is on the, after the exhale, the five second exhale, and then on
that breath, that holding in part at the bottom of the exhale.
So you have no oxygen and you're just holding it.
I do the vacuum.
So it's basically where you're sucking your stomach and kind of just make a big hole in
your stomach through sucking it in.
And so I added that to my routine.
And that definitely helped a lot, I think it's also helping make my abs more defined
because one month ago, yeah, I had, I had visible abs, but now my abs just look so much
better and so much more appealing even though my abs did look good a month ago.
They just look way better.
It's actually so crazy.
And it's simply just from that breathing exercise and probably the vacuuming also.
And then there's also another thing, but I'm going to give you a story real quick.
So I'm pretty sure my theory of how I dis, how I pushed my abs out essentially because
my abs are out or sticking out further than my chest.
My theory of how that happened is I would always lay in chairs, like lean back in chairs
and that chair would just push jam into my back.
And that's just how I sat all throughout elementary school and middle school, eight hours a day,
every day.
And so my theory is that over time it just pushed it in and it's actually like you can
see if you see from the side when I do a vacuum, you can see that my rib cage is poked out.
So I'm pretty sure that it's not just my abs.
I'm pretty sure I pushed my rib cage in through all that time and then the rib cage pushed
my abs out.
So my theory is that if I just push in the opposite direction, it will just reverse.
And so that's what I've been doing by just laying flat on my stomach.
And then that, what that does is it basically pushes on the opposite direction and tries
to flatten my abs.
And I think that helps as well.
I only do it for maybe less than five minutes a day.
I don't really time it.
I just do it.
I set a timer for 10 minutes and then do my breath work and then maybe halfway through
I stop the breath work and lay on my stomach and still do the breath work.
I still try and do it just with not with the straw because it's since you're laying on
your stomach is actually difficult to breathe through your stomach because you're basically
your whole body weight is pushing against the stomach.
So you have to, it's just like your stomach is pushing your whole body up.
And I think that helps a lot with your core strength as well.
It's a lot of resistance.
Let me get some water.
So things are right now for the past couple of weeks.
I haven't really took in any action in business.
And that's what I was hinting on earlier today, earlier in this podcast.
And if I keep moving forward like this, well, I'm going to be in exactly the same situation
that I am right now in the next, in a month, in two months, I'll be in the same exact situation.
But if I actually wake up and take conscious action and start to walk forward and actually
work towards my goals, then it'll be different.
And I will actually be closer to my goals and actually start to make some money.
But that's also another thing.
Money cannot be the goal.
Your goal cannot be money.
Because then it's just money is elusive.
This is a simple concept that I learned first in the millionaire fast lane where you can't
try and chase money.
It's kind of like if you tried to chase a cat, if you just chase the cat around, it'll
keep running away from you.
But if you lure it to you by giving it what it wants, which is food, then it will come
towards you.
So money is kind of like that as well.
If you just try and chase it around, it'll always, it'll be elusive and it'll always
run away from you and you will never get it.
But if you give it what it wants and you provide value to people, then money will come to you
in abundance.
And that's a basic business principle.
Don't chase money.
But it's also a transurfing thing that I have learned.
And it's money cannot be the goal.
Because if you focus on money, you don't actually want money.
You want what money can get.
So you don't want a thousand.
If you just had a million dollars right now, okay, it is only valuable because of what it
can do, of what you can trade for it.
If no one else, if you were the only person left in the world and you had a billion dollars,
well that's worthless.
So you could have a billion dollars or you could have a billion dollars worth of goods,
you could have all of the food that you ever need.
You could have private islands and you'll be the last one on earth.
Would you rather have a billion dollars or a private island with all the food you could
ever need?
Well I would choose the latter.
And that's simply because we don't care about the money.
We just care about what it can get.
Money only matters because we can trade it for what we want.
And that's what a lot of people do, including myself.
They think that they don't really know what they want, but they know that money can get
it.
So they just skip the step of figuring out what they want and go straight for the money.
Because the money can help them achieve anything.
And let's say they do get the money.
They don't even know what to do with it.
And so they just keep working and try to find more and more money.
But if you figure out what you want, then you'll know what you want.
That's what I did.
But then I was thinking, oh, but money will help me get it.
So I'm going to focus on money.
But that's still the same thing as the first person that didn't even focus on what they
wanted.
So then the third option is to know what you want and then just focus on moving towards
that object that you want.
And money will just be a byproduct of that comes towards you.
It'll just be an attribute to you creating the path towards your goal.
So it'll just come to you on the way to your goal, on the way to while you're on your journey
towards that goal.
I actually experienced that a little bit last night.
I don't really want to touch too much on it, but there was a savings account that I wasn't
going to have access to for a long time.
But I've been putting money into it all my life.
And last night, because I was moving towards my goal and not focus on the money, I just
suddenly got access to that savings account.
So that's huge.
That kind of represents what I'm trying to say.
Not directly, but I think moments like that will happen as well.
But I also, one of my goals is to make a successful business.
Yeah, I want the money that it will make, but I also just want to make a successful business.
And I know I can do that because I know a lot about business, but I also have this very
essential trait, which is an insatiable, insatiable desire to learn more insatiable need to learn
more.
I don't even know what insatiable means, but I think I read that in one of my business
books and I basically said develop an insatiable need to learn more.
And then I wrote down a note, develop this.
That was maybe, that was a while ago.
And I kind of already had it developed because I'd been reading books a lot, but I didn't
really have it developed for business.
And so I developed it and now I want to learn everything there is to do with business, even
though I'm not even focusing on business right now, I'm focusing on transfer fee.
So it's kind of not direct.
I don't know.
So I want to keep talking about how meditation is an exercise and not sleep time.
It's not something to just get through.
Meditation is an exercise.
Those words have a lot of value, have a lot of meaning.
If you let them, if you let them.
So I'm not sure if I should do, if I should cut down.
I might research a little bit after, I might try and figure out what the Buddhists, what
the monks, what all these, what all of these meant possible mentors and people who already
okay, actually switching notes, there's this book that Russell Brunson wrote.
It's an ebook called the marketing secrets black book.
And I emailed the PDF to myself, my school email, because it was blocked on my school
Chromebook.
The funnel to get it was blocked on the school Chromebook.
The website was blocked.
So I just emailed it, I emailed the link to the ebook to myself and so I could be able
to read it during class, which I suspect is fine because I already gave him two of my
emails and I read all of his newsletters and marketing stuff.
So I don't think he'll mind.
But what I'm, the whole reason I'm saying this is because today I read a part of one
of the chapters and they're all standalone chapters.
So you can just read one and then think about it.
And it was about, I don't remember what the chapter was called, but it's basically he
told a story about how when he started wrestling, he was terrible.
And by the way, for context, he went on to become an all American, which means that he
is basically the best wrestler in the country.
Essentially, that's what it meant.
And in the beginning, he sucked and that he said that he was very bad.
So he decided to find someone to be his mentor.
So he chose this one person and he decided to do everything they did.
So he went on runs, but he noticed that he cut corners.
He kind of slowed down on his runs, kind of slacked off a little bit.
And so Russell just assumed, oh, since he's successful and he's talented, he can do that.
He can slack.
And then during the next meet, during the next wrestling match, he watched his mentor
get absolutely destroyed like he was a little girl.
And he was just pinned so easily.
And so what that taught Russell was that if you want something, if you want, or what that
taught Russell was that he chose the wrong mentor.
And if he wants something, his mentor should be someone who has already achieved it.
So he chose a new mentor who was a three time state champion that went to his school and
he did everything that person, that mentor did.
And then two years later, Russell went on to become a state champion and then one year
after that, all American.
And his, the whole lesson learned is if you want something, copy.
If you want something, if you want to achieve something, copy everything that, or let me
rephrase.
If you want something, and then you want to achieve something, find somebody who has already
achieved that thing and just copy everything that they do.
That's there's two points.
Find someone who's already achieved that.
That's the first point.
And then the second point is to copy them exactly how they do it and copy everything they do,
their work ethic, their mindset, everything.
And so he said that it's a, it's kind of a like a law of nature.
If you do that, then eventually you will succeed.
It's just impossible otherwise.
And I'm trying to figure out, I'm trying to remember what I'm trying to connect this
to because I said something a little bit back, a little bit further back and that brought
up this story.
Oh yeah.
I was, I think I was talking about how I was going to study right after this recording.
I was going to figure out the, what the monks do and what the Buddhists do for their meditation
and to clear their minds.
And the reason why I chose that is because it satisfies both desire, both, it satisfies
the first thing.
They already have achieved a clear mind.
What I'm trying to, I want something and that thing is a clear mind and vigilant mind, conscious
awareness.
So I'm trying to find someone who's already achieved that who is like the Buddha, monks,
all those people and then once I figure out what they are doing, I just have to copy it
and then I'll get it.
So it's just as simple as that.
And that's what I plan on doing it right after this while this episode is editing and uploading.
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